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Subject: August 2001 ECMgt.com: New Standards and Rules Create Opportunity
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  • E*Trade Prescribes a Poison Pill
  • Movie Studios Attack File-Swapping Service Aimster
  • Drugmaker's E-Mail Glitch Exposed Patient Info
  • Appeals court gives Napster a break
  • Amazon stops shipping goods for free
  • Microsoft alters OEM licensing
  • Expedia Faces Multiple Shareholder Lawsuits
  • Wireless Spam: The Big Clean-up
  • Stormy economy right climate for tech write-downs
  • Putting the Tech in Technicolor
  • Customers Lose in Online Travel War
  • Broadcom unit infringes on two Intel patents
  • Caldera And Red Hat At Loggerheads Over Linux Licensing
  • Major Cybersquatting Decision Headed For Appeal
  • Mistakes Were Made!
  • New variant of Code Red worm found
  • PayPal Gets Itself Into Hot Water
  • MSN Messenger service restored
  • Big Patent on a Molecular Scale
  • IBM Shows Its Age
  • Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks
  • Civil Libertarians Alarmed By Surveillance Technology

E*Trade Prescribes a Poison Pill
Online brokerage E*Trade announced that its board of directors has approved a plan, known in Wall Street parlance as a poison pill, aimed at thwarting a hostile takeover attempt.

Movie Studios Attack File-Swapping Service Aimster
Seven major motion picture studios have filed a lawsuit in federal court against three defendants that run peer-to-peer file-swapping service Aimster.

Drugmaker's E-Mail Glitch Exposed Patient Info
A programming error at drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company resulted in the disclosure of 600 to 700 e-mail addresses belonging to participants in the company's Medi-messenger service.

Appeals court gives Napster a break
A federal appeals court ruled that embattled file-sharing service Napster can resume operation

Amazon stops shipping goods for free
Amazon.com has ended its offer of free shipping on books, music and videos, saying the company has learned a lot from the test promotion.

Microsoft alters OEM licensing
In what Microsoft openly admits is a reaction to the recent court ruling, announced that it is changing its OEM licensing practices and will allow desktop hardware manufacturers to slightly alter the software.

Expedia Faces Multiple Shareholder Lawsuits
Online travel company Expedia.com was slapped with another in what has become a series of class action lawsuits against the company alleging violations of federal securities laws.

Wireless Spam: The Big Clean-up
Unsolicited junk mail, or spam, distributed via mobile devices, will become a growing problem as the wireless Internet becomes more widely adopted and as more and more wireless devices capable of running applications come to market

Stormy economy right climate for tech write-downs
High-tech companies which offered lofty profits in good times are offering hefty write-downs in bad times to cleanse themselves of dismal news a practice referred to by some as "the big bath."

Putting the Tech in Technicolor
The 85-year-old Hollywood institution wants to remake itself as the linchpin of digital cinema.

Customers Lose in Online Travel War
No one can be bullied and hope to be around in the long run. So Southwest Airlines is right to stand up for what it sees as its own interests in its ongoing feud with Orbitz, the new bully on the block.

Broadcom unit infringes on two Intel patents
Some communications-chip products designed by a Broadcom Corp. subsidiary infringe on two Intel Corp. patents, an administrative law judge for the U.S. International Trade Commission said.

Caldera And Red Hat At Loggerheads Over Linux Licensing
Red Hat says' no way never' to Caldera's Microsoft-style licensing.

Major Cybersquatting Decision Headed For Appeal
An Argentine company that has been doing business under the name "Harrods" for nearly 90 years wants to contest a court ruling.

Mistakes Were Made!
Not all accidents, we imagine, end in tragedy.

New variant of Code Red worm found
The same company that discovered the original Code Red worm that has been wreaking havoc worldwide this week said late Friday that it has identified a variant of the worm that is harder to track.

PayPal Gets Itself Into Hot Water
Online payment service PayPal is at the center of two controversies, including a new lawsuit filed by NoBidding, the owner of auction site Bidville.com.

MSN Messenger service restored
Microsoft said that its MSN Messenger online chat service is back up and running for all users. The only remaining problem is that about 1 percent of users will have to rebuild their buddy lists for the free instant messaging service.

Big Patent on a Molecular Scale
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have patented a potential breakthrough in their quest to develop computer circuits made merely of individual molecules.

IBM Shows Its Age
Would the tech giant still be growing without some liberal accounting?

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks
Why and how IBM restored its world-class labs to business relevance.

Civil Libertarians Alarmed By Surveillance Technology
Visitors to Tampa's Ybor City nightlife district are being monitored by cameras that analyze their chins, noses and cheekbones with futuristic law enforcement technology that has evoked cries of "Big Brother."

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